Chapter 3: Reborn Heroine Lin Shu married Gu Yian in her previous life...
There was a pavilion ten feet away. The woman sitting in the pavilion had a delicate face and beautiful eyebrows, was bright and pretty, and had a strong gaze. She was the type of lady-in-waiting that the wealthy families in the capital liked most. Unlike Lin Shu, who had almond eyes and a beautiful nose, and who felt particularly sorry for me when she saw me, she lacked that kind of dignity and grace.
In the words of her mortal enemy in her previous life, she looked like a weak and delicate girl who needed a man to love her. Instead of working hard on her own, she might as well find a strong man to protect her.
Lin Shu didn't refute this, but turned around and smashed the heads of several zombies with her fists. From then on, the mortal enemy never dared to bully her again.
There was no one else around, so Lin Yao didn't put on an act and got straight to the point: "Lin Shu, I've heard what you said yesterday, but if someone like you can truly repent, the sun will rise in the west. I won't beat around the bush with you. Take this money and go as far as you can. But you can go anywhere, but you're not allowed to go to Tianshui Village!"
Thinking of her relatives and fellow villagers in Tianshui Village, Lin Yao felt complicated.
Her father was a foolishly filial and concerned about his reputation, her mother was weak, and her youngest sister was frail and sickly. The family had always relied on her, but after she passed away, she didn't know if her parents would continue to be bullied by her uncle's family. And the villagers of Tianshui Village...
Normally, everyone would quarrel and argue, but after two years, what Lin Yao remembered most was their simplicity and straightforwardness. They were not like the noble families in the capital, no matter whether they were ladies or the maids serving them, their words were sharp but with hidden intentions. In her previous life, she was ridiculed and mocked everywhere because of her rude behavior. She was simple at that time and could not understand the subtle meaning in the words. She just felt uncomfortable somewhere. After being reborn, she calculated every step so as not to fall into the isolated and helpless situation of her previous life.
But she was exhausted both physically and mentally.
Lin Shu looked at the purse that was pushed in front of her. The purse was stuffed bulgingly. If it was silver, there would be at least ten taels of it. But looking at Lin Yao's posture, it was probably not gold.
She opened it and took a look, and sure enough, it was full of golden barley!
As expected of the reborn heroine, if Lin Shu dared to accept the gold ingot, she would be like a child carrying gold across the street, and passers-by would be thieves. If she really got into trouble, others would not say anything to the heroine, after all, she was kind-hearted.
But the heroine was born in the countryside, how could she not understand these things?
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but think of the fate of the female supporting character. The female supporting character went crazy and died of self-harm on the farm, but the book only mentioned it briefly. So was there any involvement of the female protagonist in this?
Lin Shu smiled at her. "Sister Yao, thank you for your kindness, but I have already made my determination to the Marquis and his wife. I must go back. Not only do I have nowhere else to go now, but I also want to be filial to my parents. I heard that my younger sister is frail, so I have to go back even more. Whether it's my parents or my younger sister, I will take good care of them. Don't worry, Sister Yao."
Lin Yao frowned: That's exactly why I'm worried!
If Lin Shuruo really understood filial piety, how could she become estranged from the Marquis' wife?
She's a sweet-faced, cold-hearted person! She's always been known to act like a spoiled child in front of her elders, claiming filial piety but ultimately selfish and uncaring. In her previous life, this single trait had brought Lin Yao immense suffering. In this life, she'd learned to feign weakness and indignation, and with careful planning, she gradually revealed Lin Shu's true colors, bringing her the retribution she deserved!
Originally everything was under her control, but unexpectedly, Lin Shu suddenly turned the tables on her and refused to go to Zhuangzi, but wanted to return to Tianshui Village.
"Lin Shu, there are no outsiders here, so don't try to act cute with me. If this bag of golden barley is not enough, what do you want? Tell me your conditions." Lin Yao's patience ran out. Tianshui Village was her bottom line, and she would never allow a vicious and selfish person like Lin Shu to hurt her family.
Lin Shu thought of the stubbornness of the heroine in the book and really didn't want to get entangled with her.
"Sister Yao, what's wrong with us each going back to our own homes and looking for our own fathers? Everything in the Marquis' Mansion is yours. I won't fight anymore. I'm just going back to where I belong. Besides, I'm an outsider to the Lin family of the Marquis' Mansion, and you're also an outsider to the Lin family of Tianshui Village. You're an outsider, so what qualifications do you have to stop me from finding my real parents?"
These words left Lin Yao speechless.
Her lips trembled, as if she was furious, but after a moment, she sneered, "Okay, go ahead, go back to Tianshui Village. The villagers there live in thatched huts and eat bran and vegetables. Oh, you don't know the difference between grains, so you probably don't even know what bran is. It's the husk of the rice grain. Although it tastes bad, the villagers rely on it when the harvest is poor, and it can provide them with food for half a year. The vegetables we grow in the fields have to be picked and sold in town, but we eat the wild vegetables from the mountains for ourselves, which are bitter and astringent. As for clothes, they are mostly coarse linen. Since we can't afford cotton clothes for winter, we sew interlayers ourselves and stuff them with straw and reed fluff..."
Lin Shu listened attentively and nodded like a chick pecking at rice. "Okay, okay, thank you for letting me know more about Tianshui Village."
Lin Yao's expression gradually faded.
Lin Shu smiled softly, "Sister Yao said so much, isn't it because she's worried that I'll continue to act like a demon after returning to Tianshui Village? But you're overthinking it. I can act like a demon in the Marquis' Mansion because I'm the daughter of the Marquis' Mansion. I have money and connections, so they can be used by me. But what do I have now? My pockets are cleaner than my face, and I'm so weak that I can't take care of myself. How can I act like a demon? Besides, they are my real family. I will have to rely on them for the rest of my life. How could I hurt them?"
Lin Yao was silent for a moment, just staring at her, as if trying to determine something from her tone and expression.
Lin Shu let her look at her. After all, what she said was true and without any falsehood.
After a long pause, Lin Yao said with a complicated expression, "Let's assume you're truly repentant. But do you really want to go to Tianshui Village? A rich lady like you can't get used to such a life of poverty."
"How do you know if you don't try?" Lin Shu smiled sweetly, her eyes clear and pure without any calculation. Even Lin Yao, her enemy who had hated her for two lifetimes, was slightly startled.
Lin Shu not only had the original owner's memories, but she had also read books and knew what Tianshui Village was like.
The ancestor of the Loyal and Brave Marquis was a general who followed the founding emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty to conquer the world. By the time it came to my adoptive father's generation, it was no longer as prominent as before, but my adoptive father was very promising. He relied on himself to get a real job and was highly valued by the emperor.
However, this journey was not without its challenges. In his youth, the Marquis of Zhongyong was exiled to the southern barbarians, where he endured considerable hardship. His wife, deeply in love with him, accompanied him on his mission. After three years in office, he was recalled to the capital and promoted due to his outstanding performance. However, upon his return, his wife was pregnant.
The original intention of the Marquis of Zhongyong was to ask his wife to give birth before returning to the capital, but his wife was unwilling to do so. She calculated the date so that even if she walked slowly, she could still return to the capital in time to give birth.
Unexpectedly, they encountered bandits on the road. After fleeing for a while, the team ended up in a small village in the southwest. The wife of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery was frightened and her pregnancy was disturbed, so she had to give birth to a child prematurely. This premature child was Lin Yao.
The village was remote and poor. If it were not for the fact that there was no time, and there happened to be a woman giving birth in the village with a midwife by her side, the wife of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery would never have given birth in that village.
After staying in the mountain village for only three days, the wife of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery and her entourage moved to a town with much better conditions. They continued their journey north only after completing their confinement period.
The wife of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery disliked this difficult period and seldom mentioned it until two years ago when the evil slave revealed the deliberate switching of the children. Only then did the original owner learn about her mother's past. This made her increasingly repulsive to the truth and she secretly vowed that she would die in the capital and would never set foot in that impoverished mountain village.
However, what outsiders consider a poor and barren place is a treasure trove of land in Lin Shu's eyes.
The thing that is most abundant in the mountains is wild game. There is no idle grass in the mountains, and every one of them is a treasure if you can recognize it. Just as luck would have it, she recognized it.
She was not crazy, nor was she trying to plot against anyone. She just wanted to go back and live the life she wanted.
"you……"
"Do you have anything you want me to tell my mother?" Lin Shu asked.
Lin Yao tightened her lips when she heard this. "I don't have anything to say. If you can truly serve your parents with peace of mind, I can forgive the past grudges."
Lin Shu: ...No wonder the story of male and female characters can be so abusive in so many chapters. Not only is the male protagonist not talkative, but the female protagonist is also stubborn.
"Since you haven't said anything, I'll leave. Even if the journey goes smoothly, it will take two months. I have to leave early. Maybe I can make it home in time for the Dragon Boat Festival."
Lin Yao was speechless and looked at her strangely, as if she suddenly didn't recognize her.
Lin Shu waved at her and turned back to the carriage.
After the carriage rattled away, Lin Yao was still staring at it, unable to come back to her senses.
"Ayao." The man's soft voice awakened Lin Yao's wandering thoughts.
She raised her eyes to look at Gu Yian who had walked to her side without her knowing when. Her expression was still stubborn, but she unconsciously revealed a bit of dependence.
"Lin Shu has left the capital. You no longer have an excuse to refuse me. How about we get married?"
"Yian, ask me to think about it again."
"Still need to consider? Ah Yao, what are you worried about? I've already explained it to you. I just treat Lin Shu as my younger sister!"
What Gu Yian didn't know was that what Lin Yao had been struggling with was not his attitude towards Lin Shu in this life, but in his previous life.
In her previous life, Lin Shu married Gu Yian!
The marquis's mansion had a dowry of 180 loads and a ten-mile-long red dress, which was a magnificent sight.
Lin Yao had never seen with her own eyes how Gu Yian got along with Lin Shu after their marriage, but every time Lin Shu came home, she looked happy and sweet.
Gu Yian even dismissed the two maids in the mansion for Lin Shu, and did not take a concubine, giving her enough respect.
They also had two smart and clever children.
Lin Yao's fingers suddenly clenched, and her fingertips turned white.
She admitted that she envied Lin Shu because she felt that people like Lin Shu did not deserve happiness.
But after her rebirth, she never considered competing for anything. She simply didn't want everyone to be deceived by Lin Shu again. Even if Lin Shu had been ruthless enough to try to destroy her at the birthday party, she had only exposed her tricks. If she had been more ruthless, Lin Shu's innocence would have been exposed long ago.
Who would have thought that because she did not fight or compete in this life, she finally got all the things she had wanted but could not get in her previous life.
Including Gu Yian.
Except for the first time, which was a carefully planned one, she and Gu Yian always met by chance. After more and more contact, Gu Yian began to have feelings for her, and she also...
It was obvious that in his previous life, he had never even looked at her.
This was the person she should have called brother-in-law in her previous life. She was Gu Yian's sister-in-law.
If she were with Gu Yian, it would make her feel ashamed of being immoral, and also make her feel as if she was deliberately stealing Lin Shu's things.
"Ayao? Ayao?"
Gu Yian's voice called Lin Yao back from her distraction. All kinds of emotions collided in her heart. Finally, the scene of Lin Shu turning around and leaving without hesitation replayed in her mind. She suddenly cleared up the confusion that had troubled her for many days.
Never mind, that was all in the previous life. Even if Gu Yian and Lin Shu were husband and wife in the previous life, so what? In this life, Gu Yian likes her!
Lin Shu left today and might never come back. She no longer had to recall her happy and sweet past life when she saw that face.
Lin Yao felt relieved, and deep in her heart she felt an unconscious, secret and shameful joy.
"Yian, I've thought it through. Let's get married," she said.
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